Cultivator.



no. 65|,9|5. Patented :une I9, |900..

l J.i YouNGBLoom ULTIVATDB.

(pplicationlei Dec. 30, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH YOUNGBLOOD, OF FLETCHER, NORTH CAROLINA.

CU LTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,915, datedJ' une19, 1900. Application filed December 30, 189).V Serial No. 742,043. (Nomodel.)

To LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH YoUNGBLooD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fletcher, in the county of Henderson and State of NorthCarolina, .have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cultivators, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cultivators or shovel-plows, and has for itsobject to provide an improved and simplified form of such implement inwhich effectual means will be vention, with four shovels adj usted closeto-V gether and the handle-securing braces being vsecured to the lowerends.

omitted. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the shovels in a wideradjustment. Fig. 3 is a View of the cultivator in side elevation. Fig. 4is a vertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the broken line4E 4 of Fig. 3 looking toward the rear. Fig. 5 is a sectional view onthe plane indicated by the broken line 5 5 of Fig. 3.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they appear inthe several gures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, Aindicates the beam of acultivator, to which handles B and O are removably connected by bolts D.

E, F, G, and H indicate Shanks or standards of spring metal, one ofwhich is shown as an extension of the beam, to which are secured shovelsE, F', G',- and H by means of bolts I, the rear ends of the standardsbeing bent downward, as is usual, and the 'shovels These standards (fourin number, although the number may be varied) are secured to the rearend of th beam by a bolt J.

K indicates an adjusting-frame for clamping the s tandards,`consistingof bar L to rest on the tops of the standards, a bar M to rest under thestandards, and bolts N in pairs connecting the bars, there being a bolton each side of each standard.

O. O'indicate a pair of slidable bands se- 5o curable in position on thehandles B and C by means ot' set-bolts P P', threaded through the linksand bearing against the handles. Q Q indicate similar bands fiXedlysecured upon the standards E and H by means of bolts R R', the bands O Oand Q Q being connected by link-bars S S'. a

The bolts N being fixed in the adjustingframe K so far as lateralmovement therein .is concerned, movement of said frame on the 6ostandards will increase or decrease their angles to each other andadjust the shovels farther apart or nearer together, as the case may be,and by tightening up the bolts the standards and shovels will be rigidlysecured in any adjustment.

When the standards are adjusted farther apart, the link-bars S S will becarried with them and tend to pull the handles downward.

`This would in some cases bring them too 7o low, and in order to adjustthem to suit the user the bands O and O may be moved backward or forwardand secured in any adjust- E, F,G, and H are progressively increased inlength, so that each successive shovel runs close behind itspredecessor, thus preventing trash from lodging between the plows, eachone passing it to its successor until the last 9o one leaves it behind.

When there are an even numberl of standards, as in the present instance,the one that is formed from the extension of the beam is bent a triiieto one side, so as to cause the Y center of draft of the cultivator tolie midway between the shovels.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what claim as new, and desire to secure 'ny justably secured to` e'aehof the handles, and Letters PatentA ofthe United' States, is-f a. linkfrom theband on eazhy handle'to the In a cultivator, the combination,with at corresponding band onthe standards. beam, of handles andlaterallydiverging VJOSEPH YOUNGBLOOD;

5 standards secured thereto, means for adjust- Witnesses: t

ing the standards laterally, two bands rigidly W. A'. HOOD, secured totwo of the standards, a bandad- A B'.'F HOOD.`

